Bulinus
| Bulinus | |
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| Bulinus wrighti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Bulinidae |
| Subfamily: | Bulininae |
| Tribe: | Bulinini |
| Genus: | Bulinus O. F. Müller, 1781 |
| Diversity | |
| 37 extant species, at least 7 fossil species | |
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Bulinus is a genus of small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Bulinidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.
This genus is medically important because several species of Bulinus function as intermediate hosts for the schistosomiasis blood fluke.